Former President Jimmy Carter is visiting Haiti and the Dominican Republic to urge their leaders to forge a pact to rid the island of Hispaniola of malaria. An estimated 30,000 Haitians and several thousand people across the border in the Dominican Republic are infected each year with the mosquito-borne illness. Hispaniola is malaria’s last Caribbean outpost.

Participants at an international human rights conference have recommendations for the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama, including an independent commission to examine U.S. interrogation and detention practices.

Organizers of the city’s planned civil and human rights museum are planning 10 days of recognition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.